Lot 28

K. Laughlin Collection
Ruth Prowse Collection
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne

Ruth Prowse: Thirty years of collecting. Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1 April-16 May 2004

Grishin, S., A gift our city can savour: The Legacy of Ruth Prowse, Sydney Morning Herald, March 13 2012
(digital article available: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/a-gift-our-city-can-savour-20120312-1uubu.html )

Clara Southern is one of the leading women artists from the Golden Age of Australian Impressionism.
She studied at the National Gallery School alongside Arthur Streeton, Jane Sutherland, and Emanuel Phillips Fox. Also under Walter Withers at his home in Heidelberg.
Southern married John Flinn in 1905, and shortly after they moved to Blythebank at Warrandyte where she remained until her death.
She exhibited with the Victorian Artists' Society for several decades, was the first female member of the Australian Art Association, as well as a member of the Lyceum Club and the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.